10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got

Everlong · 14 Dec 2009

My logic lecturer broke away from his lecture the other day and went on some huge rant about this.

madtownidiot · 15 Dec 2009

how about a $300 version of windows that actually makes everything work on a computer right from the installation disk without having to go searching for drivers. are we ever going to see that?

Lordbob75 · 15 Dec 2009

madtownidiot said:

how about a $300 version of windows that actually makes everything work on a computer right from the installation disk without having to go searching for drivers. are we ever going to see that?

Yeah, it is called Windows 7 Ultimate.

~Lordbob

Zidane24 · 15 Dec 2009

Lordbob75 said:

madtownidiot said:

how about a $300 version of windows that actually makes everything work on a computer right from the installation disk without having to go searching for drivers. are we ever going to see that?

Yeah, it is called Windows 7 Ultimate.

~Lordbob

Unless you have a piece of very old or unique hardware...lordbob is correct

madtownidiot · 15 Dec 2009

Lordbob75 said:

Yeah, it is called Windows 7 Ultimate.

~Lordbob

not quite.. I do have to admit for the first time ever, most of the hardware was automatically detected and installed from the windows update site... but ubuntu is free, and everything works right off the live cd... which can be emulated with freeware on a flash drive. I have heard it is possible to do the same with windows 7, but have not been able to make it work.

Zidane24 · 15 Dec 2009

madtownidiot said:

Lordbob75 said:

Yeah, it is called Windows 7 Ultimate.

~Lordbob

not quite.. I do have to admit for the first time ever, most of the hardware was automatically detected and installed from the windows update site... but ubuntu is free, and everything works right off the live cd... which can be emulated with freeware on a flash drive. I have heard it is possible to do the same with windows 7, but have not been able to make it work.

Read my post above...that will explain it

madtownidiot · 15 Dec 2009

Zidane24 said:

Read my post above...that will explain it

there's nothing old or unique about my laptop. except for the memory and the HDD, everything in it came that way from the factory about 6 months ago

AlexT2889 · 16 Dec 2009

smarteyeball said:

The Videophone

This will be common soon enough. I just hope Apple has nothing to do with it. I'd hate having to use an iSeeYou.

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LOL, the Videophone has been around for about 5 or 6 years now for general public. I am Hard-of-Hearing and my deaf (NOT Gallaudet University - screw that AIDS infected campus) college/high school use Videophones every 3 feet of the way in every direction you walk in. I have my own as well, they're all from Sorenson. The first model was VP-100 and now the current one is VP-200 (the one I use), there is NO point in Videophone for hearing people which is why general public thinks it doesn't exist.

www.sorenson.com

seekermeister · 16 Dec 2009

I saw a TV commercial, within the last couple of days, where Verizon was offering a camera cell phone. On one side phone, on the other a camera. Since a person doesn't have to face the phone to talk, he could transmit audio and video simutaneously...ala videophone.

AlexT2889 · 16 Dec 2009

seekermeister said:

I saw a TV commercial, within the last couple of days, where Verizon was offering a camera cell phone. On one side phone, on the other a camera. Since a person doesn't have to face the phone to talk, he could transmit audio and video simutaneously...ala videophone.

Sorensons VideoPhone can transmit audio and video simultaneously as well...and?

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...on a nice 32 inch HDTV at that...